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Historical-Philosophical Studies of the Imaginary
Possibilities of the Imaginary at Work
Series: - Philosophy of History and Culture, Volume: 42
The imaginary is both a journey and the nave through which the journey is accomplished. It would be a âcruiseâ if the word were not so strongly enveloped in the univocity of pleasure. The exploration of our own or collective imaginations is often the space of disillusion and discontinuities. In other words, the imaginary is a trap of sorts and the theoretical exercises to understand its mechanism require the use of tools and methodologies that are at the crossroads of several disciplines. The various contributions in this volume borrow the double potential of what it can mean to work from and with the imaginary.
David HamidoviÄ, Ph.D. (2003), Université de Paris â Sorbonne (Paris 4), is Full Professor with chair at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). He has published monographs, collective volumes and many articles on Ancient Judaism, including Les manuscrits de la mer Morte (Presses Universitaires de France, 2023) and Dans lâantichambre. Pour un dialogue entre la pensée juive et la connaissance renouvelée du judaïsme ancient (Hermann, 2022).
Pierre-Adrien Marciset, Ph.D. in Philosophy (2020), Université de Nice â Sophia Antipolis, is Postdoctorant in Philosophy of consciousness and phenomenology at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). He has published Paradigmes pour une philosophie des imaginaires (Hermann, 2023), two novels, and many articles about the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg.
Pierre-Adrien Marciset, Ph.D. in Philosophy (2020), Université de Nice â Sophia Antipolis, is Postdoctorant in Philosophy of consciousness and phenomenology at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). He has published Paradigmes pour une philosophie des imaginaires (Hermann, 2023), two novels, and many articles about the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg.
List of Figures
âIntroduction: Imaginary at Work
âDavid HamidoviÄ and Pierre-Adrien Marciset
1 Prefiguration and the Historical Imagination in the Digital Age: Phenomenological Perspectives on Kant, Blumenberg, Habermas and Agamben
âAngus Nicholls
2 Process and Mnemosyne, or What Is It Like to Remember?
âPierre-Adrien Marciset
3 The Fear of the Original
âMarc de Launay
4 Albertus Magnusâ Elephant: the Factory of the Imagination
âVéronique Decaix
5 Containing an Overactive Imagination: Apollo and Nietzscheâs Pataphysics of Daydreaming
âArnaud Sorosina
6 From Imagination to Imaginary: Anatomy of Apocalypticism
âDavid HamidoviÄ
7 Hermeneutics of the Devilâs Imaginaries in Paradigmatic Eras, with Hans Blumenberg
âPierre-Adrien Marciset
8 Beyond the Edge of Imaginary: Unimaginable at Work â the Horror in H.P. Lovecraftâs Fiction, with H. Blumenberg and R. Barbaras
âCamille Byron
9 How Does Precisely the Imaginary Work? a Working Hypothesis on Four Steps
âFausto Fraisopi
Index Rerum
Index Nominum
âIntroduction: Imaginary at Work
âDavid HamidoviÄ and Pierre-Adrien Marciset
1 Prefiguration and the Historical Imagination in the Digital Age: Phenomenological Perspectives on Kant, Blumenberg, Habermas and Agamben
âAngus Nicholls
2 Process and Mnemosyne, or What Is It Like to Remember?
âPierre-Adrien Marciset
3 The Fear of the Original
âMarc de Launay
4 Albertus Magnusâ Elephant: the Factory of the Imagination
âVéronique Decaix
5 Containing an Overactive Imagination: Apollo and Nietzscheâs Pataphysics of Daydreaming
âArnaud Sorosina
6 From Imagination to Imaginary: Anatomy of Apocalypticism
âDavid HamidoviÄ
7 Hermeneutics of the Devilâs Imaginaries in Paradigmatic Eras, with Hans Blumenberg
âPierre-Adrien Marciset
8 Beyond the Edge of Imaginary: Unimaginable at Work â the Horror in H.P. Lovecraftâs Fiction, with H. Blumenberg and R. Barbaras
âCamille Byron
9 How Does Precisely the Imaginary Work? a Working Hypothesis on Four Steps
âFausto Fraisopi
Index Rerum
Index Nominum
This book is of interest to scholars, doctoral candidates and researchers involved in philosophy, intellectual history, and cultural theory.